Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Profesor, Faculty of New Technologies and Aerospace Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Faculty of New Technologies and Aerospace Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

3 Ph.D., Department of Aerospace Structures Production, Kazan National Research Technical University, Kazan, Russia

Abstract

Development in the aerospace industry is linked to the continuous pursuit of lightweight designs. Open-architecture composite structures are a new and novel use of composites for minimal-weight component design. It is reasonable to use efficient and advanced techniques such as radial braiding in the manufacturing of composite lattice tubular structures. In this article, an aerospace composite lattice tubular structure with a braided reinforcement system is studied. A method is developed to determine the parameters of the preform reinforcement. A new process has been created for the manufacture of lattice structures with a braided reinforcement system. A methodology has been developed for determining the technological parameters of radial braiding. A sample structure is manufactured and tested. Experimental studies of lattice structure samples were carried out in order to verify the methods for determining mechanical, structural, and technological parameters.

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